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Is iron man suit possible in 2018? Learn how close the technology is today.

The
Iron man is really liked superhero by many people around the world and the main
reason is the suit that iron man has. The kind of powers and the technology
used is really amazing. What really excites us is the human ability to create
such suit in reality. In today’s world this is really interesting and challenging
question that how to make a real iron man suit that can fly and do other things
like shown in movies like Avengers.

To
make a fully functional iron man suit we need to first list down the technology
that it must have :

1. Artificial
Intelligence and assistance

AI
is the future of the technology and its not very easy to work with it for
getting iron man suit capability. But this is not impossible and lots of
development has been made by different companies in this area. AI is supposed
to collect data from the human wearing suit like his heart rate, breathing
speed, eyes movement etc. Further it should also take care of external things like
surrounding changes, high accuracy in detecting and observing objects, environmental
changes, automatic decision making.

The
screen which iron man is looking at is already under development and looks like
the Google Glasses are very close innovation to that. It can show all the stats
and processed data on glasses worn.

But
processing this much data should not be too difficult as the AI in today’s
world have become really intelligent with machine learning and we can expect
all things will be in a position better than iron man JARVIS.

2.
Thrusters

Fitted
at the bottom of the suit thurster are main component of iron man suit. But
these are simple as jet thruster to just push the power in opposite direction
but also need intelligent control. So these are basic requirements

-Thruster
should be intelligent to control meaning turning it off and on should detected
by body movement or facial expression. It is not possible to do some physical act
to on/off the suit.

-Quick
and efficient: The suit may need to take sharp turnsvery quickly and this will happened in
fraction of seconds. So the thurster should sense same and make thing quick.

-
Power source : this is a very interesting question as what should be the power
source for Iron man suit ? Battery, fuel or solar charging. Surely this is
still a challenging area.

3. Suit
metal

The
suit exoskeleton has to be very light in weight and very hard to sustain
damage. Possible metal can be nickel titanium called nitinol which have similar
strength ie is highly flexible, stable light weight and strong, which can
recover after sustaining damage

4.
Weapons:

The
Iron man weapon are what makes it really war ready machine. The major part is
repulsor for doing power blasts plus can be used as flight source accelerator.The suit then can generate the powerful
blasts by generating plasma through electric current and firing the plasma and
muons, by utilizing their electromagnetic properties.

Smart
Short Missile : A small size missile which can detect
enemies, lock their aim on them, and then follow the target. Must be expensive
technology but is already developed by humans. All it requires is voice
control, AI integration etc.

Nanotechnology : The
suit shown in 2018 Avenenger infinity war consist of nanotechnology and can do
great number of things and self-healing, expanding and too many arms storage
etc. Nanotech can be used for :